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You know the old saying: "Absinthe makes the heart go flounder!"
I like it
It certainly makes me physically clumsy - amazing how my typing degenerates after a couple of glasses (of course, the very high alcohol content might have something to do with that!)
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And if you were left with any sense of personal dignity..stay away from the airports..
http://www.washingtontimes.com/technology/20070302-103948-7752r.htm
The new airline scanners work very well, and show every line,curve and dimple!
http://www.washingtontimes.com/technology/20070302-103948-7752r.htm
The new airline scanners work very well, and show every line,curve and dimple!
Tell me about it. First using Quicken Willmaker was found to be unauthorized practice of law, and now legal software venders are being held liable for providing forms. http://technology.findlaw.com/articles/00006/010710.html
It's a good thing I don't give legal advice.
It's a good thing I don't give legal advice.
Yes, our technology can undress you, homeland security can tap your phones, and the US government can take every opportunity to bully Canada (I swear the ambassador gets a bonus from the Bush administration every time he insults Canada in public), but if software helps people do their own legal work, that's going too far and we have to draw the line.
Doesn't wormwood make your emotional reactions clumsy, Psimagus? You know the old saying: "Absinthe makes the heart go flounder!"
I know that the worm wood, that abisinthe is flavored with, it gets it's name from the fact that it was once used to control intestinal worms. and it has many other uses.<-2>
The leaves and flowering tops are gathered when the plant is in full bloom, and dried naturally or with artificial heat. Its active substances include silica, two bitter elements (absinthine and anabsinthine), thujone, tannic and resinous substances, malic acid, and succinic acid. Its use has been claimed to remedy indigestion and gastric pain, it acts as an antiseptic, and as a febrifuge. For medicinal use, the herb is used to make a tea for helping pregnant women during pain of labor. A wine can also be made by macerating the herb. It is also available in powder form and as a tincture. The oil of the plant can be used as a cardiac stimulant to improve blood circulation. Pure wormwood oil is very poisonous, but with proper dosage poses little or no danger.
The leaves and flowering tops are gathered when the plant is in full bloom, and dried naturally or with artificial heat. Its active substances include silica, two bitter elements (absinthine and anabsinthine), thujone, tannic and resinous substances, malic acid, and succinic acid. Its use has been claimed to remedy indigestion and gastric pain, it acts as an antiseptic, and as a febrifuge. For medicinal use, the herb is used to make a tea for helping pregnant women during pain of labor. A wine can also be made by macerating the herb. It is also available in powder form and as a tincture. The oil of the plant can be used as a cardiac stimulant to improve blood circulation. Pure wormwood oil is very poisonous, but with proper dosage poses little or no danger.
I like it
It certainly makes me physically clumsy - amazing how my typing degenerates after a couple of glasses (of course, the very high alcohol content might have something to do with that!)
I guess beer will do that to you too, but it's not as classy, and much more gassy..as the old poem goes.
Ernest Dowson
Poet (1867- 1900)
"Absinthe makes the Tart grow fonder"
Ernest Hemingway
Author (1899-1961)
"Got tight last night on absinthe. Did knife tricks."
Paul Marie Verlaine
Poet (1844-1896)
"[In] Paris where the beer is awful, it was upon absinthe that I threw myself, absinthe day and night".
Emile Zola
Novelist and critic (1840-1902)
"Boche had known a joiner who had stripped himself stark naked in the Rue Saint-Martin and died doing the polka - he was an absinthe drinker".
Oscar Wilde
Playwright, writer, and bon viveur (1854-1900)
"A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?"
Ernest Dowson
Poet (1867- 1900)
"Absinthe makes the Tart grow fonder"
Ernest Hemingway
Author (1899-1961)
"Got tight last night on absinthe. Did knife tricks."
Paul Marie Verlaine
Poet (1844-1896)
"[In] Paris where the beer is awful, it was upon absinthe that I threw myself, absinthe day and night".
Emile Zola
Novelist and critic (1840-1902)
"Boche had known a joiner who had stripped himself stark naked in the Rue Saint-Martin and died doing the polka - he was an absinthe drinker".
Oscar Wilde
Playwright, writer, and bon viveur (1854-1900)
"A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?"
Well, I feel obliged to announce that my ideas on Quantum Mechanics have reached a bit of a crisis. On the one hand, my realist proclivities urge me to say that in addition to a quantum state, which gives probabilities of various outcomes, a quantum system also has, at any time during which it exists, a quantum status, consisting of
***OK, skip this if you aren't into the jargon: a set of values, one for each of the eigenvalues of all the operators in some complete commuting set of observables, or, otherwise put,***
what is actually going on, whether we know it or not. For example, Schroedinger's cat is always either alive or dead, it can't be half-and-half, although the probability that it is alive may be only 1/2, relative to certain initial conditions.
On the other hand, as you know, I have recently argued that quantum particles need not exist in between "source" and "target".
But, as the wave function propagates, it always gives probabilities for position of the particle. ***The position operator is always defined for it.*** So my realist requirement forces me to maintain that the particle has a definite position at each moment.
Since my realism is more important to me than whatever motivated me to deny the existence of the particle in-between, I will accept the existence of the particle in-between. My position is now close to, or perhaps identical with, that of David Bohm.
I still do not feel obliged to accept that the particle travels along an unbroken path, however. In fact, I still think that the phenomenon of quantum tunneling shows that this cannot be so.
Walk in Beauty, Irina
***OK, skip this if you aren't into the jargon: a set of values, one for each of the eigenvalues of all the operators in some complete commuting set of observables, or, otherwise put,***
what is actually going on, whether we know it or not. For example, Schroedinger's cat is always either alive or dead, it can't be half-and-half, although the probability that it is alive may be only 1/2, relative to certain initial conditions.
On the other hand, as you know, I have recently argued that quantum particles need not exist in between "source" and "target".
But, as the wave function propagates, it always gives probabilities for position of the particle. ***The position operator is always defined for it.*** So my realist requirement forces me to maintain that the particle has a definite position at each moment.
Since my realism is more important to me than whatever motivated me to deny the existence of the particle in-between, I will accept the existence of the particle in-between. My position is now close to, or perhaps identical with, that of David Bohm.
I still do not feel obliged to accept that the particle travels along an unbroken path, however. In fact, I still think that the phenomenon of quantum tunneling shows that this cannot be so.
Walk in Beauty, Irina
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